Lead UI Artist

Job Description

UXUI

What We Do

You will design customer and user-focused experiences that are fresh and innovative while problem solving by anticipating user behavior and hurdles. As part of the UX team, you know how to approach the most complex of problems and address them with simple, intuitive, and useful solutions.

What You'll Do

Epic is looking for passionate Lead UI Artists. In this position you will lead and manage a team of UI Artists (1-4) working on major initiatives of Fortnite (E.g., Gameplay UI, the Battlepass, or Social Systems). You will use your experience of generating and implementing pixel perfect UI Art and guide your team to produce well thought out features and systems. You and your team will be responsible for generating high fidelity mockups, prototypes, design systems and implementing AAA quality UI Art in Unreal Engine 5. You will work with a multidisciplinary team to ship these features to millions of players around the world.

In This Role You Will
• Inspire, mentor and manage a team of UI Artists.
• Be accountable for the quality and consistency of UI Art produced on the product team.
• Be an active part of the product leadership team and identify and scope feature work.
• Work collaboratively with UX Design, Tech Design and Code to create AAA quality UI experiences.
• Actively participate in the creation and implementation of design systems, game menus, HUD elements, Iconography, UI materials and shaders, UI animation and motion design.
• Contribute to shipping product team features on time and to quality.
• Flag new and emerging design patterns or systems from the product team to UI Art Directors.
• Collaborate with the greater UXUI Department to ensure consistency and quality is maintained across Fortnite as a product.
• Work collaboratively with UI Art leadership on discipline planning, resourcing, recruitment and training.
• Collaborate with other UX/UI Craft leads to ensure great communication is happening and stronger cross team relationships are built.
• Present and pitch designs to Product Managers, Developers, and Stakeholders.

What We're Looking For
• You have 2-4 years of experience managing a team of 1-4 people or equivalent training.
• 7+ years of experience designing and implementing in-game UI.
• You have 7+ years of experience working in Agile environments and on multi-disciplinary teams.
• You are skilled with Figma, Adobe Suite, or other comparable design software.
• You have experience implementing AAA quality UI Art in Unreal Engine or other comparable game engines.
• You are passionate about training and mentoring your team.
• You have excellent written and verbal communication skills and experience presenting to other team members and stakeholders.
• You are a service oriented, empathetic, and compassionate leader.
• You work quickly and effectively in a fast paced environment.
• You can be flexible and adaptable when faced with ambiguity.

Bonus Points
• Experience with Unreal Engine and Unreal Motion Graphics.
• Experience with building shaders and materials in Unreal Engine or comparable game engines.
• Portfolio demonstrating a keen eye for Motion Design and animation.
• Experience in creating 3d game assets in software packages like 3ds Max and/or Maya.
• Passionate about user experience and accessibility.

Please submit your resume with a portfolio for our review - and any required passwords to view your work.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-g62eqn-18-116-90-141-42 in your application.